Talk:Thalassotitan

Thalassotitan size
, did the paper actually talk about the length of skull and body of this animal? I know Nicholas Longrich did in his twitter account, but is this also the case in the actual article? Junsik1223 (talk) 01:22, 18 September 2022 (UTC)


 * Yes, in the genus description section it states ~1.5 m skull and an estimated total length of 9-10m. I also got a TL estimate of 10 m when using Prognathodon overtoni as a proxy, which is known from a complete skeleton with a skull approx. ~15% of TL (Konishi et al., 2011). Annoyingly though, I haven't found any exact skull measurements of the syntypes or referred specimens. The press release says something about Thalassotitan being up to 12 m in an image caption, but it seems that this is a typo as the actual text actually says 9 or 10 m but mentions that mosasaurs in general grew up to 12 m. Macrophyseter &#124; talk  00:32, 19 September 2022 (UTC)